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  • January 25, 2014

    You get the truth only from 'former' officials'

    Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Warning from the Obama administration’s submission to Israeli pressure, in an interview with the Lebanese OTV, Michael Scheuer, a ‘former’ senior CIA officer, said: “Three hundred...

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  • January 25, 2014

    "We focus on doing things right, instead of doing the right things"

    This quote from an international aid worker in Jerusalem prefaces a new briefing paper from Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre. Written by Dr. Jason Hart and Claudia Lo Forte,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Press as Political Player

    Dr Bouthaina Shaaban The United Nations Human Rights Council last week adopted a resolution condemning Israel for its attack on the aid flotilla on May 31.  The report said...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel: the dead parrot of the Middle East!

    By Yvonne Ridley How many of you remember Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch? It was a wonderful comedic routine that transcended nationality and culture. Timeless in its appeal, it...

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  • January 25, 2014

    What Does a "One State Solution" Really Mean?

    Beyond the Failed “Peace Process” By Alain Gresh Renewed Arab/Israeli negotiations, opened under the auspices of President Barack Obama in September, are undermined not just by settlement building but...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Exclusive eye-witness account: Universal Jurisdiction on trial

    When I was being held in Israel in 2007 and undergoing a 12-hour interrogation session I remember my interrogator saying to me as he shrugged his shoulders ‘International Law?...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The art of black propaganda

    Reports that the headquarters of the Palestinian Journalists Union in Gaza have been shut down by Hamas security forces should concern everyone with an interest in hearing the truth...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Legislating Fascism

    By Khalid Amayreh The Right-wing Israeli government on Sunday, 10 October,  approved a proposal that  would force non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state. The  proposal...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Tantrums and sheeshas, but who will care when Israel self-destructs?

    By Yvonne Ridley in Syria After the collapse of the faux Middle East peace talks Israel’s growing isolation in the world is not entirely unexpected. A side-effect is that...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Are we equipping the Palestinians to tolerate the intolerable?

    A conference in Beirut last week focussed on the shift of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from “Relief and Works...

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